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I mean ideally probably don't move in with strangers, but that's not viable for everyone I suppose

Seems like living with trusted friends/partners would always be the safest bet, or solo if you can afford it, but if you've gotta look for queer friendly roommates maybe a queer specific site would be less of a minefield than craigslist. Maybe Lex?

I googled them and it wasn't too far down the results. If there's any truth to them directing people from comparably/more safe countries to Kenya only for the "safe house"there to have poor opsec and get raided, that's unconscionable tbh.

They seemed a little bit fly-by-night but I did not expect anything this bad to even be alleged :(

edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61979384

This seems to confirm some details about the safe house. How could you think it's a good idea to run such a house publicly in a country where it is straight up illegal to be queer? While the organizers sit in fucking amsterdam or whatever

Thanks that helps!

If you're comfortable sharing I'd love to read that retrospective piece.

I don't even know if I really care about any potential complications, I don't think I could hate my body more than I already do tbqh, but I feel too uneducated on HRT to start it also, so maybe that's why I've got these questions? I honestly want to do DIY HRT just on like, principle, even though I know that's kind of a really stupid idea when I have insurance and live in a relatively safe place. I guess its just a paranoia thing, and distrust of doctors/the government not to use it against me

I have been having increasingly frequent days where mental health stuff is a struggle and I don't know how much of that to attribute to dysphoria but its definitely part of it. I think this is something that I will go through with and be better for, if I just start, but its hard to know and very easy socially to just stay in the miserable status quo

its really cool to hear an unabashedly pro-soviet perspective from the most demonized period in the USSR's history (under Stalin). She's so charismatic, and direct experiences of how the soviet economic and political organizing worked are so fascinating. I haven't finished it yet but every little tidbit of how people took to it and ran with it is so inspiring, and I think the later chapters will cover more of how changing society subsequently changed people! I read some from the scuffed PDF copy a while back, but now I found a physical copy to borrow which I am immensely lucky for!

Its a great primer on communism tbh, as long as you can get over the positive mentions of stalin (makes it a tougher rec for libs but super eye opening for anyone else who isn't deeply well read about the ussr, IMO)

Has anyone reviewed the allegations made here? https://transrescuewatch.medium.com/the-trans-rescue-papers-when-help-looks-more-like-human-trafficking-exploitation-4e3d7886bfbc

I don't know what to make of it, but I think it's worth taking a really hard look at any questionable aspects of orgs if we're going to promote them here.

I have a lot of computers and whatever and I still read a fair bit, because words on a page are cool.

Amen to that

I am finally reading through This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong and its absolutely fascinating and amazingly well written. If anything it's better at nearly 100 years old than I imagine it was in the 30s

I can talk to friends about the books I'm reading at least! but I can't even get them to read the same articles as me so we have no common material to work from and I have no sanity check for how I'm reading/interpreting the text :/

technology delenda est. I used to be the biggest reader I knew when I was a kid, now I'm still one of the biggest but only because everyone else doesn't have the attention span to read 1 (one) book and I can sometimes burn through one or two when I'm in the right headspace

whataboutism amber

depends on the context, arm isn't as consistent (or at least consistently supported) of a platform to build for as x86. ARM server? single board computer? (which one?) Apple Silicon? other?

I haven't had a lot of luck posting here about specific books that aren't like, super common reads or current book club books, though when I do get a reply its usually good, if a bit short! I honestly just wish anyone IRL would engage with this stuff with me. I like people here but I really want to hear my friends' thoughts

Arch ARM is for some reason forced to be a separate, second class project, and ARM-only pkgbuilds are systematically removed from the AUR. It's shortsighted and stupid. However I've still had decent luck with arch on arm (Danctnix, specifically)

I don't know any of those specific books but I feel the exact same way about talking about books with people. I want to have a non-banal conversation with someone. Anyone. About anything. But they're vanishingly rare, and usually just about personal experience not about any shared topic like a book or article we both read, because nobody fucking reads anything anymore :(